Sentences with phrase «many marginal seats»

It clearly shows that in these marginal seats, the key battleground seats where the general election will be won and lost, voters are very concerned about threats to religious liberty and free speech.

With the emergence of the black churches, which are engaged in electoral registration drives and are seeking to become a political force as in America, the Coalition parties risk punishment in the marginal seats.

Draft federal electoral boundaries for Queensland will be released on Friday, and several marginal seat holders will be waiting to learn their fate.

Councillors that won marginal seats on a tide of national popularity for their party are most likely to lose them when the tide ebbs.

He managed to squeeze in three separate visits, stopping for Welsh cakes and tea at the Dyffryn Gardens in the marginal seat of Vale of Glamorgan, then moving on to Brains Brewery in Cardiff, before finally taking a detour to Barry Island (and a quick vanilla ice cream and selfies with holidaying families).

Corbyn plans to visit at least 40 marginal seats during the parliamentary recess that begins on Friday, enough to put him in Downing Street if Labour won them all.

One told me of fellow candidates standing in marginal seats who had five to ten meetings a day during conference season.

He did not stumble in politics though as his charisma led him to victory in the highly marginal seat of Lewisham North for the Conservatives in 1958.

Labour ministers have been accused of using regional Cabinet meetings to help the party in key marginal seats.

Historically this has played to Labour's advantage with each party «lending» voters to the other to win marginal seats.»

Today's Times quotes two Tories in marginal seats, who criticise Cameron for a series of «unforced errors» during the campaign and a failure to «deliver the lift in the national polls that we need».

Loss of his marginal seat in 1945, followed a few months later by his re-election for the safe seat of Bromley, was the base for his successful ministerial career after 1951 - housing, the Foreign Office and the Treasury.

«With each struggling to expand beyond that, the share that candidates take of new entrants to the electorate will help to decide the most marginal seats.

He claimed 40 per cent of the vote at the 2005 election but is holding the country's most marginal seat - a 0.2 per cent swing would see it go to the Tories.

Perhaps I did it because I was in a very marginal seat and felt that the interaction with people on social media was important.

Not only is he a liberal Tory and a Remainer, he is also an accomplished and energetic campaigner - and the author of a book about «how to win a marginal seat».

They'd be the biggest Tory mugs since chicken Conservative MPs quit before May in marginal seats the party retained in a fluky result.

First, while marginal seat polling has been too inconsistent to enable firm conclusions to be drawn, the regional variations bode well for the Conservatives.

It was a complex race in a marginal seat, which ended with a surprising Labour hold for Debbie Abrahams.

If that wasn't enough, the last election was influenced by an individual who poured # 50,000 into marginal seats to influence the vote.

They were elected in marginal seats on a centre ground chosen by Cameron in 2010.

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Ukip are replacing the Conservatives as the natural challengers to Labour in marginal seats across the country according to new polling conducted for the party.

They're broadly loyal, but are prepared to rebel on occasion to help them in marginal seats.

The poll commissioned by Conservative peer Michael Ashcroft found that Labour have extended their lead in the UK's most marginal seats.

Not that I'm looking ahead to Democratic gains in the Fall, since we're defending far too many marginal seats picked up in the wave of 2008, but I do see a more typical incumbent - party loss in the range of 20 - 30 seats in the House and a handful in the Senate.

He was reduced to a role campaigning in marginal seats.

Many of them are quietly confident and have been assigned to flood Labour marginal seats instead to help turn them Tory blue.

Ashcroft finds a 14 - point Labour lead in the 32 marginal seats where it is the main challenger to the Tories, enough to put Miliband in No 10 with an overall majority.

The voters in marginal seats receive, no doubt to their delight, a great deal more attention from the parties than anyone else.

Three of Victoria's most marginal seats lie adjacent to each other in Melbourne's outer east.

This meant looking at polling data on voting intentions in key marginal seats, votes in the most recent local elections and the resources each party is likely to have to spend on campaigning in the area.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

I decided to commission my own research to establish the real state of public opinion: the true level of support for the parties, the underlying attributes associated with each, whether the picture in marginal seats really was different to that in Britain as a whole, whether the Conservatives» 164 - seat battleground made sense, and why the candidates I was helping to fund were finding it so hard to build support.

As ever, though, national polls can only tell us so much — it would be in the marginal seats that A.V. would make a decisive difference.

He is almost as old as I am, lost three councillors in Eastleigh the other day via defections, Eastleigh is a pretty marginal seat.

Dobell is more at risk for Labor than its 5.1 % margin suggests, while Robertson remains a key marginal seat by any measure.

@Don: cut defence spending or Trident and lose a bunch of marginal seats — most of the $ on Trident goes to the US, so you could always announce conventional weapons programmes providing the same jobs in whichever docks would lose out.

It won't make Labour any more popular among the voters it needs to save its marginal seats at the election.»

cut defence spending or Trident and lose a bunch of marginal seats.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

Although gaining 22 seats, Labour lost all but one of its MPs in Scotland and ended up with a net loss of 26 seats, failing to win a number of key marginal seats that it had expected to win comfortably.

The Liberal Democrats» vote has fallen by half in constituencies where Labour are their main challengers, according to my latest round of polling in marginal seats.

In contrast, Thurrock is the most marginal seat.

And a handful of MPs, including ministers like Norman Lamb and Jo Swinson (if she retains her marginal seat), who could emerge through the middle as the compromise candidate.

So good was Tasmanian Labor's federal result in 2010 that by the textbook definition, Labor has no marginal seats in the state.

* Most Tory MPs in marginal seats told Matthew Parris of The Times that the PM was right to honour his aid commitments.

Below is the text of my presentation at the Conservative Party Conference this afternoon setting out my latest research in marginal seats and the Tories» challenge in building an election - winning coalition of voters.

Tony Blair wants to give 106 Labour candidates fighting marginal seats a thousand quid.

The intelligence from Populus was brought to them by the same team who run operations in the party's marginal seats.